9,000 Year Old Mummy found in Nevada in 1940, known as the Spirit Cave Mummy.

9,000 Year Old Mummy found in Nevada in 1940, known as the Spirit Cave Mummy.

The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, thirteen miles east of Fallon, Nevada by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.

In 1996 University of California, Riverside anthropologist R. Ervi Taylor examined seventeenof the Spirit Cave artifacts using mass spectrometry. The results indicated that the mummy was approximately 9,400 years old (uncalibrated Radio-Carbon Years Before-Present (RCYBP); ~11.5 Kya calibrated) — older than any previously known North American mummy.

Photographs by Chip Clark, Smithsonian.

The stages of facial reconstruction using casts of the cranium. Dr. Douglas Owsley, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian worked with a facial reconstruction artist to reveal how Spirit Cave man may have looked.

Sources: http://www.friendsofpast.org/spirit-cave/06SCpic.html
Wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Cave_mummy